The real world isnt always waiting for the evidence; sometimes things just change.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Might a total immersion experience" be the way to launch the emerging science of implementation research into mainstream academic consciousness?
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Drug company reps may be closer to the pulse of research into behavioral change than many a health care manager.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Jim Yong Kim extols the virtues of involving Harvard strategy guru Michael Porter in helping him understand health care delivery systems.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Harvard Medical School's Jim Yong Kim encourages delegates to think about the cost of heath and public services and to ask themselves whether that money was being spent optimally.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

"At least one presenter ended their talk with a slide showing Obama with a speech bubble declaring 'Yes, we can!', to the delight of delegates."
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

"Getting lots of people to do good things well Delivery is the new Holy Grail of health-care"
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

What's in a logo? Usually not very much - but in the case of The Cochrane Collaboration's a whole moral argument. A parting shot from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.

It was bound to happen: go to a conference on randomized controlled trials and sooner or later someone will go putting the randomized controlled trial – on trial. Nick reports from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.

It’s recognized that randomized controlled trials tend to find smaller effects than other evaluation methods. Now there’s the intriguing suggestion that the reporting of methodological quality in RCTs has an impact on trial outcomes. Nick reports from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.